A comparative hardness study of Al-Si/AlB 2 and Al-Si/AlB 12 composites

Science and Engineering of Composite Materials

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 67-73

  Ramos, Glorimar ^a   Manzano, Roberto ^a   Suárez, Oscar Marcelo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Casting; Hardness; Metal matrix composites

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM DIBORIDE; BORIDE REINFORCEMENT; BULK MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; HARDNESS TEST; MATRIX COMPOSITE; METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES; NANOINDENTATION EXPERIMENTS; REINFORCING PARTICLES; ROCKWELL HARDNESS; ROCKWELL INDENTATION; SUBMICRON SCALE; UNDERLYING MECHANISM; VICKERS MICROHARDNESS TESTS;

BORIDES; CASTING; EXPERIMENTS; HARDNESS; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; NANOINDENTATION; REINFORCEMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICON;

ALUMINUM;

EID: 84859834497     PISSN: 0334181X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/secm-2011-066     Document Type: Article

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